With the COVID quarantine moving life online, I now spend many hours looking at my computer screen. Whether I’m doing school virtually, connecting with friends and family, or working on projects, all of these things keep me looking at my screen, as I am doing now. Because of this, sometimes my eyes start to hurt […]
Who wouldn’t want Gandalf’s Magic Wizard Staff? Turns out Gandalf had various staffs and either lost, broke or upgraded them frequently! This provides us with multiple staff designs and there are plenty of methods of constructing your own Magic Gandalf Staff depending upon your resources and skills. In this Instructable, I will show you how
Last week I made an electronic photo album that I could place on my work desk to show some photos. I can take a look at relaxing when I’m tired at work. Previously I have implemented the display of pictures in which the format is BMP on LCD. Nowadays most of the pictures we get
Quick Start This tutorial will take you through the steps you can use to successfully process Real World text I/OYou should avoid using any Serial methods in your loop() code and any code it calls. (see below) Install the SafeString library (V3+) from the Arduino Library Manager or the zip file For text input use a SafeStringReader – a non-blocking
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ROOAAARR!! Before you learn how to train your dragon, you need to first obtain a dragon, and there’s no better way than to make it yourself! This guide will explain the steps I took to create a scale model animatronic dragon, and in doing so I hope you might also learn how to follow similar
Since more and more of us are working from home, we are all increasing our engagement with our screens (looking at you, Zoom meetings). For myself, when I am taking a break from my computer screen I end up doing other things in my apartment and a large amount of the time, I don’t keep
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Hey! Today i’m gonna share with you one of my lastest quarantine projects, i’m talking about this awesome NodeMCU based Youtube Subscriber and View counter! It’s a pretty simple project that can be done in an hour or less so let’s get started! Supplies NodeMCU LCD 16×2 with I2C Some wires Breadboard 3D Printer (This is optional) Step
I recently got my childhood Lego out and wanted to find a project that I could combine with Arduino and mechatronics. I started off building a digger but then realised a tank would be better because, well tanks are cool!I originally built it to be controlled over Bluetooth from my phone but then wanted to
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This Instructable is a standalone follow on to my recent Think-a-Tron 2020 project. You can see a picture of my Think-a-Tron “family” including the original, 2020, and Mini versions above. For the background on what Think-a-Tron is and what I tried to accomplish with Think-a-Tron 2020, I encourage you to check out the Think-a-Tron 2020 Instructable. My
There are lots of people who are very comfortable with the Scratch programming environment but want to try something with Arduino to Blink Lights, Sense Buttons, Run Servos or whatever. They may find the C programming environment in Arduino IDE – Sketch, a bit too much of a step. This instructable draws on the work
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